Maybe i missed this one, just found that i have made this symlink recently but can't remember if this was after emerging the masked splashutils. Please report if this solves the problem, then i'll add it in my previous post.

3.) As pointed out when emerging the splashutils, you have to make some modifications to your grub.conf(or lilo.conf if you use LILO), after that it should look like this:

splashutils-1.1.9.1.ebuild wrote:

splash=silent,fadein,tty:8,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1

Note the CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 at the end of the line, if you want to see something on console1 you need this option!!!

Hope this helps you to get your gensplash back. Only thing i don't know about is the fadein-option, as i cannot see anything fading in... Anyway, at least it's back again!

rgds
Benson

Ugh! My bootup is so busted! (On the plus side, everything else seems to be running smoothly). Firstly, the splash doesn't display, and my entire screen is shifted 1/3 up (so the bottom 1/3 of the screen is blank). When the bootup indicators show up (i.e. "[OK]"), some of the OK's are split, so the "K]" appears on the next line. Then, halfway through the boot process, the splash does show up, but shifted 2/3 up the screen (the screen is now 1/3 splash, 1/3 console, 1/3 blank). The progress bar moves properly, but is too far to the right.

Maybe i missed this one, just found that i have made this symlink recently but can't remember if this was after emerging the masked splashutils. Please report if this solves the problem, then i'll add it in my previous post.

rgds
Benson

What that does is it just makes fbsplash actually show the Booting the system, F2 message... But the silent bootsplash only kicks in after Caching service dependencies... If I press F2, I get back to a black framebuffer console (nromal console) only then towards the end of the boot process fbsplash makes the consoles have a splash image and all that...

Ok just wanted to clarify my description - parts of it were inaccurate:

pifactorial wrote:

Firstly, the splash doesn't display, and my entire screen is shifted 1/3 up (so the bottom 1/3 of the screen is blank). When the bootup indicators show up (i.e. "[OK]"), some of the OK's are split, so the "K]" appears on the next line.

Everything displays normally (except no framebuffer image) until the splash appears, halfway through the boot. Then, after I press F2, I start to get the symptoms above. The "[ ok ]"'s actually show up as "[ \nok ]", not "[O\nK]", and this only happens up to "Setting System Clock to Hardware Clock" (after that the ok's display normally).

pifactorial wrote:

(the screen is now 1/3 splash, 1/3 console, 1/3 blank)

When the splash appears, the screen is actually 1/3 splash, 2/3 console. When I press F2, it becomes 2/3 console, 1/3 blank.

ARRGH! Twice now, this kernel has "soft locked" on me while using Firefox with high CPU usage. By that, I mean background processes keep running, and my mouse will still move, but the screen (except for the mouse pointer) is frozen, and the keyboard/mouse buttons won't respond. The previous (nitro0) kernel would hardlock in the same situation, so I guess this is an improvement, but it's sooooo irritating.

A couple of notes:
* I think the fadein option was causing some discolorations when the fb first came up. Remove it seemed to fix that.
* I'm used genkernel, and the initrd ends up printing stuff to the stdout at some point on top of the fbsplash... which isn't pretty.
* After that, the fbsplash works wonderfully.

So, does anyone have suggestions about the genkernel initrd's output, aside from not using it?

This may be obvious once you know , but how do I select which IO scheduler I use?
I have all three selected in kernel config.

To choose IO schedulers at boot time, use the argument 'elevator=deadline' for example in your boot manager right after the part where you point to your kernel image. To choose it at runtime do something like

Hmm, why has this to do with the hard drive? (hda, sda) I'm confused, I thought that this has to do with the cpu? And if not is it possible to change this for every drive? hda, hdb, sda?

/edit: I got it... this is the IO sheduler... Sorry for this stupid question, is it also pissible to change the cpu sheduler like this? I don't think so... And is there any more info about the IO shedulers? Benchmarks? Or when should I use which sheduler? Pros and cons of the different ones?

ARRGH! Twice now, this kernel has "soft locked" on me while using Firefox with high CPU usage. By that, I mean background processes keep running, and my mouse will still move, but the screen (except for the mouse pointer) is frozen, and the keyboard/mouse buttons won't respond. The previous (nitro0) kernel would hardlock in the same situation, so I guess this is an improvement, but it's sooooo irritating.

same here... any hints? Or has this to do with the sheduler?_________________Workstation: 5.1 SurroundSound, LIRC remote control; Laptop [IBM-T43]: patched sources, s2disk/ram, fingerprint sensor

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Unless ati/nvidia relicense their drivers, there is no way that I can put them back into nitro at this time._________________There is no substitute for experience.
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Unless ati/nvidia relicense their drivers, there is no way that I can put them back into nitro at this time.

Oh man that sucks.. the idea was just great i hope you keep up the good work and those cool ideas of yours despite that trash with those drivers!_________________That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
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Is there anything that could be slowing me down with this kernel? The initial mount of /dev/hda4 (reiser4) is taking longer than usual and I/O in general seems slower than usual.

My hard drive was failing so that solved that issue. The only other issue is whether the 1GB Lowmem patch is working properly. I have 1GB memory = 1024 MB. dmesg output indicates 1023MB lowmem though. Is that right?

I'm not sure you're going to find a solution because ide-scsi is unmaintained in the kernel, so there is probably a change in the ide subsystem that ide-scsi doesn't like and the kernel developers are not going to fix it. I wouldn't be suprised if the kernel developers decide to add ide-scsi to the feature removal schedule._________________This post has been over explained for newb-informing purposes.

Sorry about the slow development lately guys, but I have this insane deadline that I have to meet later tonight. After that, I should be able to get another release out fairly soon.

Gentree: Evil Dark Archon is correct. I know you don't want me to recommend that you switch to ide support, so I won't (SWITCH TO IDE!). Instead, I'll say that there's a chance that it might work in the next nitro, but I can't guarantee anything since I use atapi burning myself ._________________There is no substitute for experience.
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I have been using nitro for couple of days now. It it quite stable with no lockups whatsoever. I dont use much of the stuff in there (reseir4 etc.) but i do use swsusp2 and it works well. splashutils/fbsplash is a little quirky but i guess the bugs will be ironed out in future relases of the package and has nothing to do with kernel.
Just compiled KDE 3.4 and was a smooth sail.

Keep up the good work guys. Will be looking forward to future releases.

ARRGH! Twice now, this kernel has "soft locked" on me while using Firefox with high CPU usage.

Make that THREE times!
Please tell me this will be fixed in the next kernel.

As always, I can make no guarantees.

seppe has notified me that he's already working on the next version, and that he has a "special" surprise for framebuffer users._________________There is no substitute for experience.
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